Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 22-07-2016

andrewducker

Interesting Links for 22-07-2016

Jul 22, 2016 12:00

The media don't report the truth, they tell interesting stories (tags: media stories ) People In Toronto Made Memorial For Dead Raccoon After City Forgot To Pick It Up For 12 Hrs (tags: funny death animals ) Why brain medication has weird side-effects (tags: drugs brains psychology ) This is now my favourite picture of the LOTR cast (tags: ( Read more... )

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Comments 13

kalimac July 22 2016, 11:27:41 UTC

"funny death animals" is not a sequence of tags you see every day. At least I hope not.

Brain medication: This exemplifies why I find the idea of "intelligent design" so ludicrous. No intelligence would design this. The school biology lesson that first inoculated me against such a notion involved the Krebs cycle.

Good job, Nicola. Can you block Brexit, too?

drdoug July 22 2016, 13:35:08 UTC

Right with you on metabolic pathways being Eldritch crazy nonsense. There are *loads* of "futile cycles", where one metabolite gets converted to another, and then back again. Except they're not futile! Or may not be. Sometimes they might be used to create heat; sometimes they might be used as extremely complex control and feedback systems. It's a silly system to leave lying around, and an even sillier system to co-opt for a bizarre range of additional functions. But evolution doesn't think that way ( ... )

andrewducker July 22 2016, 13:37:57 UTC

Badly documented too!

simont July 22 2016, 16:13:43 UTC

"funny death animals" is not a sequence of tags you see every day.

SQUEAK.

drplokta July 22 2016, 11:37:09 UTC

Repeal of the Human Rights Act or leaving the European Convention on Human Rights must be dead now. The last thing the government needs is a second major constitutional change that might both break up the UK and cause the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement.

andrewducker July 22 2016, 12:13:29 UTC

I'd agree. For any sensible government.

ylla July 22 2016, 11:41:20 UTC

The raccoon memorial is a lot more than 9 months old!

andrewducker July 22 2016, 12:13:41 UTC

But not "current affairs", so that's fine.

ylla July 22 2016, 12:25:06 UTC

:-)

Fair enough, it was quite funny!

momentsmusicaux July 22 2016, 12:11:10 UTC

Urgh I did not need to see that LOTR photo.

drdoug July 22 2016, 13:35:20 UTC

Thanks for the link love!

andrewducker July 22 2016, 14:14:59 UTC

Thanks for the post - I enjoyed it, and thought that it highlighted something important.

I feel the same way whenever I'm reading an article about computers - most journalists don't really understand and it always makes me wonder how little journalists understand about areas I'm not an expert in.